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I suspect it’s the licensing fee to Dolby that is the cost driver.

Its amusing to think that part of this decision is to save on bandwidth costs.

Maybe if their egress prices were based on real costs

They're one of the largest providers of cloud compute in the world. I doubt they care about bandwidth.

I remember back around 2015 they had a problem and half the internet went down.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a licensing issue more than a data one. Atmos support for my Xbox headset, for example, has a monthly subscription cost.

Atmos and DTS:X for home theatre setups don’t have any additional licensing fees however.

Bet it’s a licensing cost things. But some Atmos tracks are losslesss.